However, this time the lines with Vendor and Model info displayedas Vendor: C O N N E Rwith one space between all of the letters.

This didn't reflect in the dmesg output - only on the console.

-- Henrik Storner <storner@osiris.ping.dk> http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/"The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed to start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully." -Windows NT Server v3.51